Don't really have any tips that havn't already been stated. I do use the PBP coco specific nutes. I use exactly the dosage on the container and have had no problems at all. I do supplement with cal-mag but havn't this last grow and really can't see the diff.

wellcome in Mo!

Wamen - hows it going with the outdoor

peace

hey bonecarver

I'm going to be using hand water'd coco pots on my next grow and i had a few questions about watering. I'll be watering once a day, with run off. Do you know roughly how much I'd need to water each plant in a 2 gallon container of 70/30 canna coco/perlite to arrive at around 10-15% run off? I'm just looking for some kind of rough estimate so I can figure out what size of container I am going to need for my nutrient mixing. I'll have (16) 2 gallon pots to water on a daily basis. I currently only have 3 gallon pails for mixing my nutrients in and it's not great as I wind up mixing 2-3 pails each time I feed, but at least I only do this every 4-5 days or so. With daily watering I have a feeling I am going to have to invest in some kind of res to mix in and hold nutrients but I have no idea what size it would need to be. I was going to pick up some 5 gallon pails, but if I wind up mixing 15+ gallons a day, I'd rather get a heavy weight garbage can to do it all at once. THanks for any help you can give, cya

[gaiusmarius]

get a big garbage can, once the plants get a certain size they can easy take 1/2 gallon per watering. like you said mixing nutes every day is bull shit.

[WhiteWolfman]

I am using coco for the first time and hand watering! DO you let the pots dry totally out like soil before you water? Or do you keep em a little moister & feed em more frequntly? Currently feeding/watering every 2-3days.

Using the house & garden organic coco nutes, anyone have experience with these products?

[pray4pistils]

Definitely don't let the coco dry out completely between watering. The fine little hairs on the roots will die and it'll take forever to get them to regenerate. In my set up, I use a moisture meter to keep the wetness between "slightly wet" and "slightly dry". So, I keep it in the moist range always. Two of my plants were originally grown in soil which is still packed around the root balls. I shook out as much as I could and then plopped them in the new containers full of coco coir. It seems that I never have to water the soil portion at all because it wicks moisure out of the fiber area.

a rez for the water is definetly a must. the plastic garbage cans work really well. also big plastic containers for storage etc.

coco should never be dried up inbetween watering unless there is some really serious reason for it.

the run of is really not so messy - i try to keep the coco steadily at a equal humidity level more or less - that means when i water a big part of the water i put in flushes out - if it doesnt i just keep ading more glas by glas. i pretty much water untill i start getting run of and then the remaing water draining thru will replace and flush the coco in every watering.

peace

[purcellville]

I started playing with Coco about 2-3 months ago. I am hand feeding and watering currently, and plan to continue with my veg area. Check out my veg/mom tray in 3x3 pots of pure coco.



I just put a few pots to flower and will probably continue by hand water for now. I have everything to do a comprehensive dripper setup, but I am concentrating on trying to have a perpetual garden of variety. This is making me think about bigger pots, I have some 5x5.

Anyhow check out the few young girls in flower.

Here is a Sensi Star, from clone @ 7 Days in a 3x3 Coco pot sitting on top of a waterfarm.



Here is Rez's Killer Apollo, from clone @ 7 Days in a 3x3 Coco pot sitting on top of a Waterfarm.



I will be adding Rez's Ice and some ECSD today.

Now on to nutes.... I have been using the PBP line, because that is what I still have a lot of sitting around. Surprisingly all looks well to me using this stuff. Now I have some of the Canna A+B, PK13/14, and Rhizotonic (sp?) on the way so i will see how much better it can get.

I will admit the PBP line is cumbersome to use. But with LK, Sweet, and bit of Budswell the results are spectacular.

Sweet smoking to all.

[the cult]

Handwatered, on coco with some hydroton as well. I water every day or at least every 2nd. For future I am considering automated run-to-waste as its hard to keep up with watering with RL too.

Sour Jack, day 33:



AK-47, day 33 (indica pheno):



Coco is the best really.

the cult,

what size square container are you using and how much water are you giving every day / two days?

Peace